The Sun. — London, England, 1818-12-18 00:00:00

rJr TilE STIN. . Riga for a, ; c orgi' Hera a nti :0;14 l it it ii w ortV trie Lb! lebdo* row?' P ; , de,; krbi ct ; in~~~A~ - ;4 36 ' „$ rittor' lorP lb icy ;Gls' wit h Ps l •Iy 1 61 11 .e ,ifo l i lor rii ,ilic t 1:0 111 ;O bi ' .J I'l4l f fit 4, 81, lt I°l 4ruct, ~~. i Ci► 5 r9 t e cl ot oiw ()O s og S(P: tii , rnit► joilf 4 01 0 11 10/6 0 16 ,p6' rev C. )9' i te, re' 11 4 'V INSOLVENT AGENTS. Rft. t6iToR,—A3 SCRUTATOR •WiSlIeS me klention some instances that have come to my I nowledge, respecting the practice of Insolvent Agents and their evil tendency, I shall conten , Myself, at present, with disclosing one example of the Special Bailing System only, after which I 'consider •it would be a waste of time and paper to atate more : " ►Some time since, a woman in the prison at Exeter, for a debt of 61/. applied to an Agent for Special fail. The Agent caused her to be bailed, for a certain sum of money, which he received, and the poor Woman was discharged for the ?no 'meet. But when the plaintiffs' Attorney came to look after the bail, there were no such persons to be found, and the Attorney's name that was sub- icribed to the writ of Sopersedeas is strongly sus Pected to be forged, whereupon the plahites At. torney very properly caused this Lady to be ar. Tested again, and she is now in the same prison for the same debt, at the suit of the same plaintiff. The plaintiff's Attorney has applied to the Law : ( "ciety, and a serious investigation will, no doubt, take place." The above are stubborn facts now under consi 4eration; and SCRUTATOR is further informed', that there are Insolvent Agents to every prison in the l ingdom, who Special Bail, supersede, and in fact 444 the whole business of the prisoners, to the almost entire exclusion of the profession, in open fiance of the laws of the land, and oftentimes to their own disgrace. 11 this accusation of suspected perjury and for gery does not cause the Agents to come for ‘l'ard unai voce and demand an explanation, nothing Rill rouse them ; and should they make the ap. they shall be favoured with the names of the llblintiff and defendant, and referred to the plain. , dttorneq for particulars, by Air. Editor, Your most obedient Servant, ATTORNATOS. 'C hancery -lane, Dec. 17, 1818. FOR THE 'SUN. rERTIFICATED CONVEYANCERS. • Ma. arroa,—Feding considerable interest in t he respectability of a profession to which I have, et a heavy 'expense, articled one of my sons, h ave been much gratified in perusing•the sensible attl liberal 'marks which have on various occa slubs appeared in your Paper, on the subject of 11)e till some time since in contemplation, for the bett er regulation of persons practising as Con- Ir e Yaneers. The attention of the Attotnies of this li b gdorn, who are now, I believe, with a few tx eentions', a very respectable order of men, has tep„ „ very p ro p er ly di recte d to t hi s su bj ect , b ut li -ut withstandiog their readiness to d e f e nd th e i r r Z iv ileges from the encroachments of others, great i.atchf u l ness i s st ill necessary th prevent . the in ,,tlugenseut o f th ose w i se regu l at i ons w hi c h t h e Le "'llaitire has provided to guard against the Ramis it▪ t) : hol improper persons into their own body, and j " with the view of exciting this watchf u lness atl beg to submit to your professional Corte .Puridents, a c a s e which, I co n ceive, includ e s i n Vmost flagrant breach of the L a w, as it governs entlemen becoming Candidates for admission. certain Gentleman in the City of Bristol, • tl abo u t . 98 Vears, the junior and active part • er . of a an o king-house, in which, together with is a gency for a notorious fire-office, all his time h a b ecupied has been, for upwards of seven months ost, arti c l ed to an Attorney in Bristol, who is ' m u s t hints- e lf i n pract i ce, h ut on l y acts as an as ni,taut Its the office of another Attorney. A ju- F r b rother of this banker was admitt e d an At be).at,'Y the end of th e l ast T erm , an d i t i s sa id to tar tne intenti on o f t h e p art i es , as soon as be re-• 14 1% from town, that the one brother shall he Ignetl over to the other, notwithstanding be iinues its his other engagements. The rtliltilailotrikirsli; eolb:rfyltillool, iia t se : bl v oli e ybn) afl o aatu f si skea t t: l tc s si e :: e);:blrcireacilisth.esekri he k of in his rlsysosi rfibhloetrefsnot;tlbYitlit.bct,oteliatsi°ortibleoi-i-, G entle th e law will sanction this scheme, or how the ly t o will be able legilly and conscientious %%ll° Make the usual affidavit of dye service, ,virile ti on ul lY concerned in other avocations, is clues kat w hich I must leave to persons who ere inti , Al t with the law on the subject. Y son tells me, however, that service to an 81?rtley who d oes not pract i se f or h i mse lf i s not ar fticles' servic e ; b ut as h e i s young i n his sho u ld f ee l o bl ige d b y the i nsert i on o f 64° sta tement in yo u r Jo u rn a l, a s it may draw ti o rti ll some of your more learned friends an opi 44:e:et:a subject. pledge myself that this is correct, and would have sent you lllen,ables ,ter t parties, if I was satisfied of the g a lity of the poceeding. I am, Sir, Yo ur obedient Servant and constant Reader, A MERCHANT OF BRISTOL. ItM e) , :111)E N TIAL EscAra.—The weather . WAS 4 1 ; :"II so extreme)y cold that the canal in St. 1 11 0 , - ": 8 Park was covered w i th i ce, and borne I llvo - , g ; t less boy s amuse d t h emse l ves by s lidi ng ante►'t• Between three and lour o'clock in the fr oui neon, a boy who had v e nt u red some yar ds i t ip t) : i he Pagod a -b r id ge, h av i ng s li ppe d d own , 4 t , e t,-eiers thr ew t h emselves upon him, and the •it., .0o thin to support them, they all f ell Witt,Qut p ater. Fortunately they were got out Y other inj , try than a good ducking' liz T.iig.k-1411u. • COVENT-CAdDRN —The new Comedy; wbich had been long aWnooteed, was last night brought forward at this Theatre, under the title of A Word for the Ladies. CHARACTERS. . . Old Bowerscourt \lr.. W. FARREN. Young Bowcrseourt ,Mr. ABBOTT. Winterland Mr . MACREADY. Dorrington Mr. C. KEMBLS. Larum Mr. YOUNG. Adamant Silrertongue Mr. Lrsros. Currette Mr. JONES. Scud Mr. EMERY. Gray Mr. CUAPMAN. Miss Adamant Miss BRUNTON, Clara Winterland Mrs. FAUCIT. Mrs. Singletini Mrs. YATES. The scene lies principally on the sea-toast of this country, but no particular county is specified, and the main interest of the piece rests upon the distress of Young U'interland, who, haring incurred the displeasure of his uncle, on whom his fortunes depended, is disinherited, and hides from his creditors in a fisherman's cottage. His sister, who shares his misfortunes, is attached to Young Dorrington, his sworn friend, to whom he has formerly Mole great sacrifices, and who has been to the West Indies to take possession, as he be lieves, of a rich inheritance. On his return, the Winter!ands depend on his fulfilling their hopes, both of marrying Clara, and relieving her brother. Hiscontluct,however, becomes mys terious and equivocal ; and the most affecting of the situations arise from Winterland's resentment of his conduct, the disap pointed passion of Clara, and the severe reproach of her feel ings, which she incurs from the high spirit and wounded pride of her brother. Circumstances render Dorrington the bearer of an offer of marriage to Clara from Young Bowerscourt, who had suffered overtures to be made inClara's prosperity,and which his father holds him more than ever bound to follow up; an ex planation ensues between Dorrington and Clara, when he de clares himself disappointed also of his inheritance, and urges the suit of Young llowerscourt, in order to save Wi uterland from despair and ruin. Bowersconrt's heart has, however, in spite ` of his better reason, been ensnared by Miss Ada. in•ant, a gay woman of fashion, of a generous disposition, but flighty manners, which revolt him. The difficulties of these parties ate' finally removed by a seasonable discovery—Mr. Hustings, the uncle of Wiuterland, had left the property to an unknown stranger, who had saved his life from robbers on the coast of Cornwall, on his identifying himself; if not, it passes to a Mr. Silvcrtongue, a more distant relation. Sil vertongoe, by a cowardly caution to avert the supposed indig nation of Dorrington, calls on him to explain his conduct, and unfolds particulars which prove Dorrington himself to be the fugitive incognito, in the last hour allowed him to set up his title. Ht arrives, however, at Old Bowerecouit's, the trustee, just in time, anti the possession of the property enables him to do justice to Winterland, and to confirm his engagements with Clara. Young,Bowerscourt is thus released of his obligation—both he and his father become reconciled to Miss Adamant, Who remains the mistress of his heart.— Mr. LartiM is a natural agent in the plot, and some amusing situations arise out of his having abandoned his wife, from a hasty and erroneous conviction of her infidelity; and being afterwards employed by Old Bowerscourt to promote a match with her for the old gentleman, she being then unknown to him under the name of Singleton. This leads to a satis factory explanation, by Which they are also reconciled. The impertinent gallantries of a Mr. Corvette, which have a great tendencyto create the jealun fancies of Young Bowers court, form also a considerable share of the earlier acts of the comedy. This Comedy is understood to be- the avowed production of Air. K kNNY, to whom the. Public have often been indebted for dramatic amusement. bears many parts analogous to the spirit of his former writings, hut is not on the whole very iw teresriug. The character of Laren is a misnomer, for it does not imply his natural disposition, as his temper is supposed to be soured by tnisfortune.— It is a miToure of The Stranger, Penruddock, and The Green Man.—The rest of the cliarac ters have bo claim to originality. In fact, the piece is overliutpled with characters, and if some of them were thrown overbo3rd, ihe dramatic vessel would sail more securely, and not fear e stoi nos of criticism, %vliich assailed it last night. During the middle of the Play, the audience seemed to be seized with a contagious cough, that prevented a due developement of the plot, which in itself, however, seemed to be ra. er Rio intricate to be perfectly intelligible in its languid progress. Bat there was too much dialogue, and by no intans a sufficiency of action and incident.—Much allo►Sance o►►ght to be made for the disappoiottnent bf the Author, who is understood to have written a character for Miss KELLY, and consequently, however well represented by the substitute, could hardly be expected to operate with the same effect as if performed by the person for whom it was origi nally intended, and for whose peculiar talents it was purposely designed.—The acting thr ,, ughout :vas good. YOUNG, C. KEMBI.I3, MACREATYY, FARREN, LISTON, 21111 JONES appeared to promi nent advantage. Mrs. YATES had little to do, but her depnt•tnment was easy. i\Jiss 8141) teITON'S cha racter was hardly intelligible, and she siinpered though it, slit‘%ing her beautiful teeth, as usual.— Mrs. PAUctT, always respectable, %vas equally so act night. We leave our Readers to judge them- selves of the merits O the Prologue awl Epilogue, whleh they will find in our last Page. The Co- rnedy, as we have hinted, received some coughing criticism during its progress, but the hostility, on its being announced fur repetition, was certainly less than the approbation which supported it.- , - The Theatre was completely full. REGISTER OF FASHION. ARRIVALS.—Lord and Lady William Russell, from Paris ; Viscountess Cremorne, from her scat, Chelsea Farm; Lord Alvanley, from a visit to the Dupe and Duchess of York, at Oatlands; the Earl of Grostenor, from a tour. DEPARTURES.—The Earl arid Countess of Stanhope, for teir seat in Kent; Viscount Cranley, for his seat, Clandon, Surrey. ['he CtiANceLLf — ut 1 - 1,1 - s continued the Order of the MASTBIt of the ROLLS, setting nsitle the awnrd of the Arbitrators in the cause between the Earl of KINGSTON sud the CQUuIeSS I)ow3ger of KIND TOY. I`l.lE ii.EVEITENt) IibCTOR. BURNEY. Though some time has el..psed since. the world wa's deprived of this traly estimable Ornathent of Literature .and valuable Member of Society, yet his cbaraCter will he revered as long as teat ping, Ge nius, anti Virtue shall be held in veneration. We recently met with the subfoined tribute to the memory of this excellent mon, in a Provincial Journal ; and having bad for many years the plea sure, and we ►nay Properly Add the honour, to he received Into his friendship, we feel a melancholy gratification in transferring it to THE Sux, con vinced that though it was evidently written by the, hand of AFFecrioN, it was in all respects as evi dently guided by the direction of irRUT H A few brief sentences have told the cireun'istances of his death, and his mortal remains have been committed to the grave, Not so shall pass away the memory of this e*cellenttieholar. Il'hile Learning shall record the acquirements of her chil dren—while the virtues of social life shall be dear to the re collection—while a vigorous understanding,chastened by deep erudition, shall ermoble the name of man, his name shall be first amongst the most distinguished. The World, by common consent, has ion!: acknowl edged him the first classical scholar of the age. When Porson died, the palm beca►se undisputed; will, though we hare still left amongst us u►en, whom days of undivided toil, and nights of undiminished study. have rendered accomplished and pro found, even by these the name of Burney will continue to be adduced, as of one who had reached the most eminent literary ascendancy. The Rev. Dr. Burney was the son of Charles Burney, Doctor of Music. At an early age he distinguished himself for his.proficiency in .classical learning, and as an assistant to Dr. Rose, at Chiswick, he perfected himself in those studies which in his later years acquired him the high reputation he so long enjoyed. Upon the Doctor's marriage with Miss Rose, the manage mentof the schobl devolved upon him, and for many years at Hammersmith, and aft erwar d s a t G reenw i c h , the best portion of his life was passid in the laborious duties of a schoolmaster. The eminence to which many of his pupils bare risen in the pulpit, at the bar, and in the senate, bears strong testi ninny to his unwearied assiduity in this arduous profession. Laborious indeed are the duties of, a schoolmaster, and, highly praiseworthy is he who can patiently apply himself to the instruction of youth. , • prom the peculiar mortifications attendant upon this task Dr. Burney was not exempt, although he toiled for so many years,and with so much success, in this wearisome profession. After a period of between 20 and 3() years devoted to his school, he thus strongly, in the preface to his Abridgment of Bishop Pearson, speaks the language of experience : " During the latter part of this period, the difficulties, the " toils, and the solicitude of the schoolmaster's occupation " have been gradually and greatly increased; , not so mucli " by the itil days in which we knee fallen,' . as by those "'extraordinary .and destructive indulgencies with which "children are now gratified, during the seasons at which " they are under the roof of their parents." " As long as the domestic system of education preserves " its present form ' it will inevitiOly produce a di s taste f or " study at school, which the active exertions of a master must " combat ; a repugnance to regulations which he most vigo " rously correct, and a defiance to authority which he must " incessantly labour to restrain. Let not my brethren, how " ever, though the prospect is gloomy, and their cotes are " augmented, shrink froM the active fulfilment of this ar " drums task,. but let them recollect, amidst watchfulness, " which must enfeeble the stoutest frame, and amidst exer " tions which must enervate time must vigorous understanding, " t hat no occupatimm can be more eminently useful than that " in whith they are engaged." From this enervating profession the Doctor, in 1802, totally retired, leaving in t he !manes of his salt a charge which he had himself so lung and so honourably exercised. In the year 1807, Doctor Burney entered into Holy Orders, and has resided, since his retirement flow the school, at his Rectory House at Deptford. There, ; in the continued p?ose cution of literary pursuits, were passed his latter years.— Surrounded, by the - noble library he had collected, he enjoyed in the bosom of his family those pleasures which a cultivated mind can alone appreciate. In the full vigour of manhood, with the prdmise of an ex tended life, he was sunimoned suddenly, but not unprepared, to the mansions of eternity. The sorrows of the living are tint within our province in this brief notice of the dead. May the proud memory he has kft behinu him be some consolation to their afflictions. No man could endear hims'elf to his friends more tho roughly than time subject of this sketch. His mind, stored With the richest treasures of antiquity, was equally attentive to the literature of the passing day, and the lighter- orna ments of social converse flowed from Info with a peculiar grace and playfulness. To the attainments of the Scholar, was added the polished carriage of the Gentleman—and in his conversation, the eye could speak what the tongue might leave unfinished. His friends will long remember the fas cination, and to those who knew WTI uot, the charm is in communicable. As a Divine, the Discipline and OKthodoxy of the Church found in him a staunch and steady supporter; and, although he published but few works on religious subjects, those which he has lett are useful and important. ss From his cradle " He was a Scholar, and a ripe and good one, " Exceeding wise, fair spoken and persuading." To abler pens than ours be intrusted this feature of his cha racter—We presume not to ascend the lofty ground he trod. As a Husband and a Father, he was kind, affectionate, and indulgent. As a man, he possessed, in an enviable degree, those quali ties which render life respectable and happy—his habits of association with the higher classes never pm evented him froni returning with satisfaction to the pleasures of she study. His ohcreations were drawn from those mighty sources of instruction—books and men ; and he had no quality wore reinarbable than his rapid and natural transition from time one to the other, adapting his mind to each, as the occasion of the moment demanded. His friends were amongst the wise and good—his admirers) all who knew lino- Lofty as this police may seem, it is not overstrained—Of him the language of troth must necessarily in many respects be the language of panegyric—Alas " Can flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death ?" We claim not for his memory an exemption from human frailties—hilt whatever his might have been, they obtruded not on the world—To that world he hat left a proud example of TalentS, Industry, And Learning—And we trust, that ih rendering our last account to the Great arid Eternal Judge, our better works, with his, may be accepted; our frailties par duued. Farewell, at length, to lire's delusive dream, Where folly ranges through each wide extreme-- Farewell the busy world, its hopes, arid fears, And checapier'd memory of depai t ed., years; The dart has sped—the parting struggle's o'er, And what Wilt Burney once, is now no more. And yet, how seldom learning shall entwine So fresh a laurel for her sons as thine-- Su I ing as science any weed can claim, To after aces shall descend thy name; And still, in friendship's mind, shall lire the Lours tiu utter pulish'd by thy social powors— In humble hope, th e sou l ha; soar . il above, We trust thy slririt . iv a !Saviour's Lure. 11Zanuar. , ,, lilt D t. • WESTAIINSTERIANA. Of all election theatres, Westminster is that . which affords the greatest scope for election ta lents. More abundant in voters than London, than even Middlesex, nay, than Yorkshire itself, still in larger measure than by its numerical superiority of electors, is Westminster the stage on which are displayable to most effect the vat i?gated destepitie* that crown with success a conflict for Parliamen tary ItepresentatiOo. If Westminster contains a proportion of the low and ignorant, it compre hends also whatever is most enlightened and ex aired in the whole range of the British Constituent BOdY. Westininster is the seat of Government, of Legislation, of all Societies for Science and Art. In it resides Or sojourns whatever is most learned or critical in the empire. Yet is it not the . least of Mode'rn wonders to have seen, as seen it has been more than once in the last dozen years, that the currule .chair of CHARLES FOX should be aspir ed to by Candidates advertising their pretensions —in broken English. This,is not kti objection of pedantry. Large, probably, in such a place as Westminster, very large is the number who may give thtir suffrage upon this plain feeling, that a man should know gram Mar before he makes law. 'Tis true, the vote of the crudest tells as well upon the poll-book as that of the most accomplished ; but not so the in fluence or the example. An able management of a Westminster contest, however, would not allow even the Principal of that contest to compromise the intellectual character of his cause. If its Can didate were diseased with an itch for bep►inting himself, a judicious gui►lance of his election would contrive to gag his pen. Extraordinary as the representative aspect of Westminster has been since the death of Mr. Fox, still more 3o are the errors arising front that aspect. The most mistaken commentaries hare followed upon effects, whilst the effects have ne ver been traced to their real causes. In Paris, at the present moment, a political duel appears to be pending, which may,. perhaps, exhi bit to a shocked world, a fresh impression of the carnage between St. Morys and Dufay, in the on molesting presence of no less than six acc!essaries to that revolting slaughter. Could the depository, whether in France or in England, of that preroga gative which the Prince of Poets has termed th* attribute of Heaven,' find fit occasion for passing by the comparatively innocent principal, and making example of the guilty seconds, such a dis tinction would tend more than ten thousand trialq at law to check the abuse of duelling-- , .the use of duelling is a different question. At the General. Election of 1807, a second was (mind to carry, at the deadly hour of night, a military message in. the na►ue of one friend, reeking from a tavern, to mnother Kentl whoa► at that identical tavern the sender embraced only a few hours before, in wonted. cotdiality. Another second . was, upon the same occasion, not wanting, who permitted his princi- pal, tinder such circumstances, to take counsel only of - his co►-rage; and to quit his family bed in order to encounter for possible mutuality of ho. roieide, n person who, only six months anteeeft dently,' proclaimed his readiness to perish upon rt scaffold with this, his suddenly created antagonist. No chance insisted on for second thon,ghts—no, time exacted to prepare for the ' reckoning period interposed for the innocent sleep, that hahn of hurt minds,' which may by morning have obliterated all irritations. Wi►hout entering into the n►crits of the dispute between Sir FRANCIS BURDSTT and his adversary in the crisis alluded to —without dwelling upon the sample of genuine Jacobin morality afforded by that incident to poor PAULL—tiiii position is certain, that all sensible minds sympathized with Sir FRANCIS 13u BDETT upon that - duel. It was that duel, and not his po. litics ; Which first made Sir FRANCIS Altmber for Westminster. In fact, there was nothing tit serving the name Of opposition to Sir FRANCIS BURDETT in 1807• Colonel ELLIOTT, with a prudence becoming the protector of much about the largest and loveliest family in the world, retired early from ihe field. Of another candidate upon that occasion, though gifted with a genius only short of celestial, it was an egregious weakness to have—nt all possible places—ever even thought of Westminster. To coincidences, therefore, is wholly attributable the SUCCet , 3 Of Sir FRANCIS BURDETT in the year 7. —ln the year 12, the re-elections, not being op posed, throw no light upon the question of com parative strength. Strange, indeed, it would be if the astuteness Of COBBETT had overlooked the sot iline demonstration of Sir FRANCIS BUR. DETT'S Westminster nothingness, put,_ as it has been, beyond all doubt, in the thrte first days of the late pinlL The Durdettites may tail at Cos- IIETT ; hut till they rail the three first days of the Lite poll out of the book, they but offend their lungs' in vavnting their hero's weight in Test " ~~`r.